About 200 people gathered for the Georgia Cherokee Community Alliance’s at-large Meeting at Laurel Park in Marietta on Saturday.
It was the first in-person meeting for the Cherokee Nation in Georgia since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Attendees got their Cherokee IDs, registered to vote in Cherokee Nation elections, met with the principal Chief and gathered in community with other Cherokee people from the region.
“I think it’s a particularly Cherokee thing to want to be together with extended family.” said principal Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr. “So one of the things we worked on during COVID was how do we keep connected with people when we have to stay apart from each other?”
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